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Quale Etica Per I Guidici?, Charles Baron Aug 2013

Quale Etica Per I Guidici?, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.


Licensure Of Health Care Professionals: The Consumer's Case For Abolition, Charles H. Baron Aug 2013

Licensure Of Health Care Professionals: The Consumer's Case For Abolition, Charles H. Baron

Charles H. Baron

While state medical licensure laws ostensibly are intended to promote worthwhile goals, such as the maintenance of high standards in health care delivery, this Article argues that these laws in practice are detrimental to consumers. The Article takes the position that licensure contributes to high medical care costs and stifles competition, innovation and consumer autonomy. It concludes that delicensure would expand the range of health services available to consumers and reduce patient dependency, and that these developments would tend to make medical practice more satisfying to consumers and providers of health care services.


Professional Ethical Issues Confronting The Bench And Bar In 'Mental Disability' Cases, Charles Baron Aug 2013

Professional Ethical Issues Confronting The Bench And Bar In 'Mental Disability' Cases, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.


Medical Paternalism And The Rule Of Law: A Reply To Dr. Relman, Charles Baron Aug 2013

Medical Paternalism And The Rule Of Law: A Reply To Dr. Relman, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

In this Article, Professor Baron challenges the position taken recently by Dr. Arnold Relman in this journal that the 1977 Saikewicz decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts was incorrect in calling for routine judicial resolution of decisions whether to provide life-prolonging treatment to terminally ill incompetent patients. First, Professor Baron argues that Dr. Relman's position that doctors should make such decisions is based upon an outmoded, paternalistic view of the doctor-patient relationship. Second, he points out the importance of guaranteeing to such decisions the special qualities of process which characterize decision making by courts and which are not …


Prosecuting Doctors For Trusting Patients, Deborah Hellman Sep 2009

Prosecuting Doctors For Trusting Patients, Deborah Hellman

Deborah Hellman

In an escalating phase of our country’s war on drugs, doctors treating patients in pain are being prosecuted for drug trafficking under the Controlled Substances Act. While doctors surely can be guilty of drug trafficking when they sell drugs for money, lately some doctors have been prosecuted for violations of a statute that requires knowingly distributing or dispensing controlled substances in an unauthorized manner for simply being willfully blind to the fact that their patients were reselling the drugs. While willful blindness may be an apt substitute for knowledge in the traditional drug courier scenario, doctors in these cases are …


Evidence, Belief, And Action: The Failure Of Equipoise To Resolve The Ethical Tension In The Randomized Clinical Trial, Deborah Hellman Aug 2009

Evidence, Belief, And Action: The Failure Of Equipoise To Resolve The Ethical Tension In The Randomized Clinical Trial, Deborah Hellman

Deborah Hellman

No abstract provided.


Judging By Appearances: Professional Ethics, Expressive Government, And The Moral Significance Of How Things Seem, Deborah Hellman Aug 2009

Judging By Appearances: Professional Ethics, Expressive Government, And The Moral Significance Of How Things Seem, Deborah Hellman

Deborah Hellman

No abstract provided.


Quale Etica Per I Guidici?, Charles Baron Dec 2002

Quale Etica Per I Guidici?, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.


Professional Ethical Issues Confronting The Bench And Bar In 'Mental Disability' Cases, Charles Baron Dec 1981

Professional Ethical Issues Confronting The Bench And Bar In 'Mental Disability' Cases, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.